Do It Yourself Octopied

….pencil in where your octopus will be…(which don’t show up that well so, no photo)…

…fill in the spaces with white……give the white spaces a black border….…add red to the tongue & eyes……cover white and black bordered bits with yellow……cover the yellow with green…(add blue to the spit round the tongue)……spots…like the leopard,  any self discerning octopus is nothing without spots….…dry brush in some shadow at the appropriate junctures…and white highlights on the spit…….finish with a black outline….…hang it on the wall….

…now you try.

Ol’ School

…got me a nicely made,retro (70s?), Dept’ of Education blackboard at the tip shop a several weeks back…

…coupla coats of blackboard paint and…

…finally affixed it to the kitchen wall on Monday…

…easier to draw on, affixed, than when it’s balanced, precariously, on the bread bin…

…mission accomplished…

…somewhere to write shopping lists or to catch ideas for cartoons as they come out of the nearby radio…

…like so…

…pretty sure I didn’t mishear him, but this was at 6.00am and I’m pretty much running on instinct at that time of the morning…

…instinct and only one cup of coffee.

Decor & Reading List

…Hoorah the Tip Shop!… I will never be stuck for decorating ideas or reading material ever again…

 

..so many tasteful pictures…so many essential titles…

…so little discretionary will power…

…got a bunch of these “planned”…stay tuned.